This could be the start of something really great: "In simplest terms, a way to fund high-quality, original reporting, in any medium, through donations to a non-profit called NewAssignment.Net."

I'm not sure if this is a good use, but it's better than nothing... "One of [Alex Dragulescu's] more notable projects involved creating what he calls Spam Plants. He wrote algorithms that analyzed various text and data points of junk e-mail to produce "organic" images of plantlike structures that spontaneously grew based on incoming spam."